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Researchers Set New Distance Record for Quantum Key Distribution

Researchers Set New Distance Record for Quantum Key Distribution

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum key distribution (QKD) could be the next commercial success of quantum physics, and a recent study has taken the field a step closer to this reality. Researchers from the University ...


Computer scientists deploy first practical, Web-based, secure, verifiable voting system

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (28) | comments 12

Computer scientists affiliated with the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS), based at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with scientists at the Université ...


Making quantum cryptography practical

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Quantum cryptography, a completely secure means of communication, is much closer to being used practically as researchers from Toshiba and Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory have now developed high speed detectors ...


New digital security program doesn't protect as promised

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Texas at Austin scientists have shown that they can break "Vanish," a program that promised to self-destruct computer data, such as emails and photographs, and thereby protect a person's privacy.


Researchers unite to distribute quantum keys

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Researchers from across Europe have united to build the largest quantum key distribution network ever built. The efforts of 41 research and industrial organisations were realised as secure, quantum encrypted information ...


Discovery of protein that reactivates herpes simplex virus helps solve medical mystery

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Research in PLoS Pathogens appears to solve a long standing medical mystery by identifying a viral protein, VP16, as the molecular key that prompts herpes simplex virus (HSV) to exit latency and cause recurrent disease.


Scientists discover a key protein regulator of inflammation and cell death

Biology /

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Reporting in the journal Nature, researchers led by Emad Alnemri, Ph.D., professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, discovered a key protein component involved in inflammation.


World first for sending data using quantum cryptography

World first for sending data using quantum cryptography

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (64) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time the transmission of data secured by quantum cryptography is demonstrated within a commercial telecommunications network. 41 partners from 12 European countries, including ...


BioVault locks up biometrics: Using biometrics for encryption, digital signatures

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A system that allows biometric data to be used to create a secret key for data encryption has been developed by researchers in South Africa. They describe details of the new technology in the International Journal of Electronic Se ...


Review: Bookmark for public radio saves your place (AP)

Review: Bookmark for public radio saves your place

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- I'm sort of a public radio junkie, so if I'm in my car and the kids haven't usurped the radio dial, I'm likely tuned to "Morning Edition," "Marketplace" or "Fresh Air." Unfortunately, my short daily ...


Researchers establishing security standards for the internet

Researchers establishing security standards for the internet

Technology / Internet

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth researchers who were pioneers in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) - a system that secures and authenticates computer communications - are now playing leading roles establishing Internet ...


Researchers find molecular 'key' to successful blood stem cell transplants

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University of British Columbia researchers have discovered a "molecular key" that could help increase the success of blood stem cell transplants, a procedure currently used to treat diseases such as leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma ...


Research puts finger on virtual iPhone button

Research puts finger on virtual iPhone button

Technology / Software

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (14) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- A virtual tactile keyboard could hold the key to making the iPhone easier to use.


Siemens builds a lock made of light: Data transfer using quantum cryptography

Siemens builds a lock made of light: Data transfer using quantum cryptography

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 01, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic communication is becoming more secure all over the world. Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Austrian Research Centers (ARC) and Graz University of Technology have joined forces ...


Using your car key as a credit card?

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 22, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- BMW Group Research and Technology and NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, have unveiled a prototype of the world’s first multifunctional car key. The prototype features ...



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